From RexHuppke for usatodayopinion: It doesn’t take much pondering to figure out cause and effect. You dehumanize people enough, someone will treat them as less than human. You make guns easy to get, unhinged people will get them and use them to kill.
, killed 23 and admitted he was targeting Mexican people.
We will learn more from Colorado Springs investigators about the motives of Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, the man suspected of shooting up the LGBTQ nightclub,But what we know already should be enough to make anyone who has tossed about the word “groomer” or made specious claims that LGBTQ people are a threat to children feel at least partially responsible for the violence.
It’s almost hard to be angry when you know the same damn thing is going to keep happening. When you know a small but noisy swath of the American population is going to deny a lick of responsibility – not blame themselves, not blame the guns, not see any problem with yelling whatever’s on their minds.It’s almost hard to be angry. But I’m managing.I’m angry that the thing we knew was going to happen happened.
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